[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oilier dental surgeons wbo from 19tL December were, betwe'Cn them, giving service in the Oouncirs clinics to tlie extent of ten sessions per week, and despite the fact that the leeway in the ireatment of sidiool (diildren had not yet been made up, arrangements wei‘e renewed for the insjiection and treatment facilities for expectant mothers. In general, treatment will, of course, still have t.o be limitedi to that whiidi can be given at the fixed surgeries at Beverley and Bridlington, and possibly at the hos])ital surgery at Driffield. So fai' as young children are (‘onceriied the arrangements have always been that at Beverley and Bridlington they can he I'efeired to the dentists woiidng at the fixed surgeries attached lo the two clinics. Elsewhere, shortly before the dental caravan is due to visit a schoid, health visitors advise as many moiheis of young (diildren in the area as they can of this visit and ins[)ection facilities are arranged for those hroughi to the dental offi(‘er when be is carrying out bis preliminary inspeidion at tbe scdiool. Those needing treat- ment are oft'ered it when, shortly afterwards, the treatment is ju'ovided foi- the s(diool (diildren in the caravan at the sfdiool. This sei'vic(‘ has continued despite the recent shortage of stab except, of course, that it has not been olfered in those pai'ts of the (aiunty whei’e the shoi'tag’'e of staff necessitated th(' almost coni])h't(‘ cessation of the I'outim' demtal service for sidiool childien. Very few ])arents take advantage of these facilities. (fi) Domkiliaky xMidwifehy and (8) Domiciliary Nursing Seramces. ()wing to the predominantly rural nature of the County the domi(dliarv midwifery and domiciliary nursing services have from the beginning been organised and administered as one servi(^e—a fortunate fact in Anew of the fall in tbe biidli 1‘ate, and the i)ro])ortionatel3^ greater fall in the number of domi(dliary births. ddie establishment for domiciliar}^ midwives and nurses is 70—i.e., one nurse for each 8,000 of j)oi)ulation ap])T'oximately, but so far the work has been satis- faidorily ('arri(ul out by 62 nurses. Although each nurse is under Ihe immediate administratiAU'' control of the appropriate divisional mediiml off](‘er, the personal and detailed super- vision is carried out by the SuperAnsor of MidwiA^es and Disti'i(d Nurses and her assistant, who are attached to the headiiuarters staff at County Hall. The Supervisor of MidwiAms and Distiu’ct Nurses also carries out the necessary sn])ervision of midwives em]doyed in the various hosjiitals and })iivate malernity homes in ihe County. At the end of 1952 the domiciliai'v nursing staff Avas made U]i as follows: — I)(»inicili;n\v Xurse-inidwives 42 I loiniciliarv Mklwives 7 1 )(»iniciliarv District Nurses 13 Of these, 16 Avere Queen’s Nurses and 21 had had district training. It is tlie (Council’s ])olicy that all nurses shall have cars and that as soon as circumstances alloAv these cars shall be